F. D. (Frank) Reeve , poet and novelist, worked on the docks before taking up an academic career. He has published ten volumes of poetry, seven books of fiction, twelve books of translations, three books of literary criticism, four libretti, and countless uncollected essays, articles, stories, poems, reviews, and translations in journals across the country from The Atlantic to The New Yorker and The Sewanee Review, reviewed for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and served as a professor of letters at Wesleyan University, where he was honored for his passionate commitment to teaching. Reeve's writing has won him an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Society, and a D. Lit. from New England College.